Tag: Carers
Alzheimer Scotland comment on the case of Jeanette Maitland, whose husband received 106 carers over one year
No one should have to go through the experience that Jeanette Maitland and her late husband faced. Unjustifiably frequent changes of support and care staff are simply not acceptable in any circumstance, particularly where dementia is concerned, and we must learn some very quick lessons from this terrible situation. There are around 84,000 people [...]
Investigating the past for a fulfilling future
Residents and staff at Care UK’s Whitby Dene care home will spend Local and Community History Month investigating local history for a display at the home and learning about each other’s multicultural heritage and traditions. Manager Sue Ann Jones said: “History Month, which takes place in May, has given us a great opportunity to [...]
This was an isolated incident-Forest Healthcare comments
“We are pleased justice has been done in the case of the male former carer and that the prompt actions taken by the home have been validated by the Court’s decision. This matter caused great distress to residents and staff alike. We apologised both verbally and in writing to the family as soon as the [...]
Care.com, the Largest Online Marketplace for Finding Care in the US, Expands into UK
In celebration of its UK launch, Care.com, which charges families a subscription fee for full site access in the US, will offer its UK service free to all members until 1st June. Founded in 2006, Care.com has had over one million care providers register on its US site, which receives an average of 6 million [...]
Apprenticeship Numbers in Social Care Continue To Increase
Apprenticeship numbers in social care continue to increase. The total number of starts on the joint health and social care framework is 52,541. The majority of these 50,472, are in social care. Social care employers recognise the benefits of supporting their staff through Apprenticeships. An Apprenticeship is a work-based training programme which leads to [...]
Ricky Gervais Comments On The Way We treat Our Elderly
”No one cares about old people in this country. There is a sort of army of youth but getting old is the one thing that will happen to everyone” commented Ricky Gervais. Discussing the research he did to write his new comedy ‘Derek‘ in which he plays a carer in a residential care home, gave him [...]
Achieving Great Respite Care
It is estimated that there are around six million people in the UK who are unpaid carers, looking after a partner, family member or friend due to disability, illness or age. These carers often have to fit their role around working, studying and other commitments. While this is hard enough, some people also do [...]
A Heart Warming Story Which Begins With ABC
When Harry Hattermore experienced a stroke that left him unable to walk or eat solid food, he thought his life was over, but, thanks to his perseverance, the love of his family and the caring approach of the team at Care UK’s Little Holland Hall, he now has a new lease of life. Nursing home [...]
Yorkshire Bank Funded Care Home To Create New Jobs
A £1.5 million project to convert a 19th century building into a high-end residential care home is set to create up to 35 full and part-time jobs in the West Midlands. Rectory Care Limited is renovating the former St Cuthbert’s rectory in Donnington, Albrighton, into a 31-bedroom care home, backed by funding [...]
Protect The Money Of Dementia Sufferers
People with dementia are being cheated out of at least £100 million, the Alzheimer’s Society revealed. The charity estimates that up to 112,500 (15 per cent) people with dementia have been victims of financial abuse such as cold calling, scam mail, or mis-selling. Its new report ‘Short changed: Protecting people with dementia from [...]
Record Number Of Adult Social Care Apprentices
Adult social care employers are celebrating the achievements of a record number of apprentices during National Apprenticeship Week which kicks off this week. Last year the sector saw more than 40,000 new apprentices across England use the framework working towards qualifications that will boost their knowledge and skills to deliver high quality care. They [...]
CQC Publishes Reports On Services For People With Learning Disabilities
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes a further 12 reports from a targeted programme of 150 unannounced inspections of hospitals and care homes that care for people with learning disabilities. The programme is looking at whether people experience safe and appropriate care, treatment and support and whether they are protected from abuse. [...]
Health Advice For The Festive Break
Recent news from Care UK Health advice for the festive break Care UK GP’s have put together a handy checklist to help you get prepared for health care issues over the festive break. Preparation is the key to a relaxing Christmas – from present buying to shopping – and the same [...]
HPC MARKET REVIEW
HPC MARKET REVIEW January 2012 After a year which has seen a great deal of activity focused on the social care sector, it is likely that 2012 will throw up challenges of its own, in addition to suffering from symptoms of a ‘hangover’ from 2011. The cost of care is likely to figure high on [...]
TUC Day of Action
Are you involved in the strikes on Wednesday? Do you sympathise with the strikers? Let me know if the day of action has an effect on your business and staff. Will it damage your business? Will you be able to provide adequate care? Leave your comments below;
Hadrian Healthcare Continue To Grow
Ridley Park care home, built on the site of the former Plessey Road School, was officially opened by MP Ronnie Campbell and mayor of Blyth Robert Parker on Friday (11 November). Built by Hadrian Healthcare Group, it includes a residents’ bar, hair salon, traditional-style newspaper and sweet shop, a stylish bistro and library. [...]
Paul Burstow Minister of Care Comments
Paul Burstow has made the following statements both written and oral to questions regarding care in the UK. ”The proposals we have outlined in the Health and Social Care Bill place a much firmer emphasis on. The importance of integration-better collaboration, partnership working and integration across social care and the national health [...]
Celebrities join Apetito to celebrate National Community Meals Week
Community Meals hit the headlines when a host of dignitaries and celebrities joined apetito, the leading national supplier of Meals on Wheels to local authorities throughout the UK, as it made its daily deliveries to pensioners across the country. To celebrate this year’s National Community Meals Week and raise awareness of the service, [...]
Local Authority Agrees To Make A Fresh Decision On Care Home Fees
Staffordshire County Council was faced with a legal challenge at the High Court by the Fairer Fee Forum (FFF) who were representing 200 care providers within the local authority’s jurisdiction. However, after a dramatic turn of events, Staffordshire County Council agreed with the FFF to carry out a fresh review of [...]
200 Excess Deaths This Winter
In an attempt to lower the number of unnecessary deaths this winter, Age UK is launching a ground-breaking initiative with the Met Office and the Department of Health. The Met Office will give Age UK advance warnings when it predicts a cold spell so that vulnerable older people can be pre-warned and [...]
Shaping Our Age
New research released from WRVS, the UK’s largest charity delivering preventative care for older people, shows that services older people believe are crucial to their wellbeing are suffering as a result of government cuts across the country placing older people’s health at risk and putting an overstretched NHS under even greater pressure. [...]
Care Providers Alliance Launches A Vision For Regulation
The regulation of care and support: a Care Provider Alliance vision Background to the Care Providers Alliance The Care Providers Alliance (CPA) is a group of representative bodies within the adult social care sector who have come together to ensure a coordinated response to the major issues that affect the sector. The [...]
Care Souths Dedication to End Of Life Gets Them Their Just Reward
A Care South Palliative Care Team based in Crewkerne, Somerset, has won the Dedication to End of Life Care award in the Care Focus annual awards. The award, which was presented at a gala event in Taunton, was sponsored by St Margaret’s Hospice which provides support to patients in the hospice and [...]
Protect Your Clients Assets
Are you a Residential Home Provider or Nursing Home Provider? What existing arrangements do you have in place to manage vulnerable client’s funds? Are any existing arrangements in place robust enough to cover yourself from any associated risks? For example are you holding large amounts of funds for [...]
Affected By Mental Health?
‘Park Bench’, a short film written and produced by a group of Jewish Care’s mental health educators along with Magpie Motion Productions was launched at the Martin B. Cohen Centre for Wellbeing in Edgware on Monday 10th October on World Mental Health Day. The red carpet event was attended by 80 [...]
Love Of Food Massively Important For Elderly Says Apetito
Commenting on the Care Quality Commission’s report Lee Sheppard, Divisional Manager Care Homes at apetito commented: “In the 21st century, to learn that some of the country’s most frail and vulnerable people are being denied sufficient nourishment is incredible. We’re not talking about a complex medical issue here. It’s a basic, essential [...]
HealthWatch England Will Be The National Consumer Champion
Next month sees a major step in the setting up of HealthWatch England, with the start of the recruitment of its Chair. HealthWatch England will be the national consumer champion that will give voice to collective views of the people who use NHS and social care services in England. Patrick [...]
British Invention Helps Blind & Partially Sighted ‘Map’ Their Surroundings
The UltraCane™ , a sophisticated mobility aid, designed to make it easier for blind and visually impaired people to walk around with confidence, launches in October 2011, during the UK’s Disability Awareness Month. A team of entrepreneurs led by electronics engineer Dr Paul Clark, a director of Sound Foresight Technology Ltd, pooled their expertise to [...]
Do You Understand Your Market? Why You Should Care?
Marketing- It’s a funny old word and it can bring to mind all sorts of pictures but it’s definitely the way forward for care operators and their owners, big or small- group size I mean! The world has changed a lot and so has care. The old Victorian vicarage run by the [...]
Liverpool’s Abbeydale care home sold by Christie + Co
Acting on behalf of Doson Ltd, Christie + Co has sold Abbeydale Nursing & Residential Home in Liverpool to an existing local operator for an undisclosed sum. This is the second care home deal to have completed within the region during the last month. The home, which operated with a fully qualified RGN Manager, is [...]
A Positive Outlook From AJ Social Care
With recent announcements causing negative media attention and calls for reform throughout the social care industry, local care provider, AJ Social Care, has called for a more positive outlook to drive change and give greater support to a more progressive social agenda. Jo Guy, Managing Director of AJ Social [...]
Care Home Directory For Yorkshire
Tadcaster firm Kaleton Ltd today announced the launch of a new online Care Home Directory Initiative serving the whole of Yorkshire. The web site, CareHomesYorkshire.com, aims to make essential information about accessing care services easily available to everyone in the county. “Traditionally, details of local Care Homes have only been available [...]
Coming Together To Improve The Lives Of Older People
Dozens of organisations from across the voluntary, private and public sectors are coming together in partnership to celebrate the lives of older people and address the challenges of our ageing society. Launched today to coincide with Older People’s Day celebrations, the Age Action Alliance will work together to improve the lives of [...]
Is this the end of age discrimination in the workplace?
From October 1st Britain’s older workers will be protected from bosses who want to fire them because they think they are too old. The Default Retirement Age (DRA) which gave employers the right to sack staff who were 65 and over purely because of their age is being abolished. [...]
National Clinical Director To Headline NCA Conference Dementia Care Work Stream
Prof. Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia at the Department of Health will be the headline speaker at the Dementia Care work stream on day one of this year’s National Care Association Conference. This specialist work stream event will feature a wide range of prominent and expert speakers discussing a [...]
Up to 500 More Care Jobs To Join Ark In Yorkshire
Ark Home Healthcare is planning to create 150 new jobs following the takeover of a portfolio of care homes across the region. The company, which gained backing from private equity partners Ashbridge Capital and Core Capital earlier this year, has acquired the home care division of Anchor Trust and has taken over [...]
AJ GROUP PLANS EXPANSION WITH TEN NEW ROLES
AJ Group the provider of care, training and recruitment for the social care market, has announced its plans to expand the team with the addition of no fewer than ten new roles, which are available at its head office in Leeds. The business has seen an increase in turnover of 10% with recent account [...]
Paul Burstow Updates The Government On Southern Cross
Paul Burstow updates the government on Southern Cross- A company that will be no more from the end of October. Paul Burstow MP Written Update On Southern Cross September 12, 2011 I wish to update the House further on the situation regarding Southern Cross Healthcare. Throughout, the Government’s overriding concerns have been [...]
Memories Shared With Veterans During Presentation Ceremony
Learning Morse Code, rescuing a Polish soldier and serving well-to-do-families were a few of the special memories shared during a veterans presentation ceremony at the Tunbridge Wells Care Centre. The event, organised by the care centre on Upper Grosvenor road, welcomed Tunbridge Wells Deputy Mayor, Cllr John Smith, the [...]
Recognise Your Work Force- Deadline Is Friday For the Best Awards!
Achieving an Accolade proves you are improving the lives of people using social care services through workforce development. Recognise your staff in these fantastic awards! This year’s nomination forms have been simplified and adapted to make it even easier for you to apply – so why not give it a go? Does this [...]
Double Whammy For LNT
LNT Group chairman Lawrence Tomlinson today completed another double by scooping two awards at the Yorkshire & Humber Institute of Directors’ Director of the Year Awards for 2011. This follows Mr Tomlinson recently being awarded two honorary doctorates by the Universities of Huddersfield and Bradford respectively. Mr Tomlinson has built a [...]
Is Your Organisation Person Centred?
Every time I open a newspaper or watch the news of late there are more stories around the collapse of care homes and abuse in others, putting people who use services at risk and placing them in extremely vulnerable positions. In this modern society where we can virtually do anything at the [...]
Care Beside The Seaside In Safe Hands
There are more than 10 million disabled people in Britain. Half are over state pension age. One in five people of working age have some form of disability. There are 770,000 disabled children in the country. It’s a fair bet that many of them would NOT want to stay in an hotel [...]
DC Care Sells North East Care Home
DC Care is delighted to announce the recent sale of a care home in South Shields, Tyne & Wear. The care home, registered for 30, is situated near the town centre and close to the coast, overlooking a delightful newly renovated park complete with Victorian bandstand. Built in the early 1900’s, [...]
Do You Know About The CQC Excellence Award?
It is imperative that anybody with an interest in social care and committed to improving the quality of life for all those vulnerable people living in a care home or all those who may need residential care in the future should respond to the Care Quality Commission’s Proposed Excellence Award Consultation which closes on 1st [...]
CQC Must Shoulder Some Responsibility Regarding Winterbourne View
The English Community Care Association (ECCA), the leading representative body for independent care providers, has today reacted with surprise to the Care Quality Commission’s analysis of the Winterbourne View case. Martin Green, Chief Executive of ECCA, says: “The CQC has failed to take due responsibility for their own [...]
This Week On Care Industry News
This week on Care Industry News we follow up a couple of stories and explore where to get respite care. Recently www.careindustrynews.co.uk approached European Care regarding their financial and director status; http://www.careindustrynews.co.uk/2011/05/whats-happened-at-european-care-group/ This story is bubbling away and according to staff there are big problems ahead. We look at property [...]
Diary Of A Domiciliary Provider
DIARY 27th June 2011 Got to thinking over the weekend – service user / customer / client / patient – which is the best generic term – as there is a long running thread on LinkedIn on how providers should refer to the people who use our services. I dislike [...]
